by Dan Mitchell | Jul 29, 2023 | Blogs, Education
The government school monopoly is an expensive failure. As I wrote last year. If Winston Churchill was commenting on America’s government schools instead of the Royal Air Force, he would have said, “never have so many paid so much to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 9, 2023 | Blogs, Education
In Part I of this series, I made the simple point that school choice should be a civil rights issue. This is because government schools do a scandalously bad job of educating children from poor communities and choice...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 8, 2023 | Blogs, Education
In 2009, I groused that modern Democrats were repeating George Wallace’s awful policy of blocking educational opportunities for minority children. Based on this video, the folks at Unleash Prosperity Now are even more upset. That’s a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 5, 2023 | Blogs, Education
For 2023, we have the IMF and CNN in a contest for the year’s most economically illiterate tweet and we have a strange entry for the year’s most half-right tweet. Today, let’s enjoy what will probably be the year’s most heartwarming...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 12, 2023 | Blogs, Education
No matter how you slice the data (federal income tax, all federal taxes, state taxes, local taxes, total taxes, etc), rich people shoulder a disproportionate share of America’s fiscal burden. Indeed, the United States has a more “progressive”...